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<> ;V 4 a lie iCaurar.trr 2mu? (8KM1?WEEKIjY.) JUAMTA WYL1E Editor J. C. SHKPAlil). . . Ilusincss M:ui:iu.i i fUUMSHKKS' ANNOUNCEMENT: of Published Tuesdays and Frt- cc days at Lancaster, S. C.. by The p Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, es- P* tabltshed 1852; The Review, te established 1878; The Enter- p< prise, established 1891, and en- ' tered as second-class matter ct Oct. 7, 1906, at the postofflce ul at Lancaster, S. C., under Act g( of Congress of March 3. 1879. j Bunnt ivirnun rmvn; i (In Advance.) j ti One Year $1.50 t Six Months 75c ; ======================== H "Let reverence for laws be h breathed by every American j b, mother to the lisping babe that {) prattles on her lap; let it be j <t taught in schools, in seminaries j and colleges; let it be written ol in primers, spelling books and | ai almanacs; let it be preached J g from the pulpit, proclaimed in ; legislative halls, and enforced in i courts of just'ce. And in short, w let it become the poltical relig- rr ion of the nation; and let the n old and the young, the ri'-h and the poor, the grave and the gay | of all sexes and tongues and j o: colors and conditions, sacrifice , h unceasingly upon its altars." 1 bi _ Weather forecast for South Caro- ! p< lina: Showers Tuesday, cooler at P night; Wednesday cooler and partly ft cloudy. I g] TUKSOAY, OCTOBKR 5, 1915. j ol Have you planted your winter gar- i 8( den? aI + tl "Fall hat" day has come and gone Pi but several straws and Panamas are w still braving October weather. ; E 4. 1 w If you are not a member of the w Library Association you are missing something. Gei on the band-wagon Iand join it. + All merchants who expect to do *;* much business this fall had better begin to remind the public that they are still in business. w + ' w Whether or not you ought to s<>!1 'I your cotton or hold it depends alto- rti gether on whether the cotton is di yours, that is, whether you have ti debts to pay or not. ti + H The commission form of govern- Cl ment, rightly administered, makes tl for a progressive community. Lan- a caster should give thought to the ri advantages it offers. p + w Georgia is now confronted with w two pests, viz: Tom Watson and th<boll weevil. As destructive forces it e is hard to tell which will play greater ^ havoc with the state. 1 * v Lancaster will welcome the Char- ' lotte boosters but we warn them here and now that Lancaster is loyal to C( hor nvvn stnto thnf with lis its "South Carolina First." !" The Gaffney Ledger is edited by s< one Ed H. DeCamp, who, when he w finds he is in tlie wrong has the man- u hood to admit it and to apologize to those whose feelings he lias woundtd. " ?__ 41 ' ^ N'ot. satisfied with tlie troubles poor W ild Georgia has already, a member w >f the legislature of that state isi about to introduce a bill for the es1 . tablishment of a state dispensary " system. a + ;a If the speed limit is exceeded on V Main street and a fine is imposed p therefor, nobody can plead Ignor-, t< anee of the law with the warnings a posted in conspicuous places along a the street. o + c If the petit jurors of Charleston county will do their duty towards the blind tigers as the grand jury has re- / cently done a long step will have | been made towards law enforcement ( a in Charleston. c + v It may be well to remind teachers' t and school authorities of the state-jj ment of Dr. Claxton, United States, commissioner of education, that "the] first duty of the school is to safe- t guard the child's health." I * I This issue of The Mews completes , Vol. 10 of the paper. For a decade ( The News has been a welcome visi- < tor in the homes of our citizens in all parts of the county. We would be, glad, if by the end of another year, j it should be a twice a week visitor in every home in the county. If you are not already taking the paper begin now. * The wise farmer realizes already ?v?. h'trhar nrlnna hp in otterft't tiiov iuv u n?v? K> ?vw? ?w for his cotton this tall would never have been possible If the South had | nr'R^d a bumper crop. He knows t!*et the short crop is responsible for be'ter prices and be has learned to >eep down the cotton acreage, plant-1 In* much of his lands in what will! feed his family and livestock. T ' ' ' ' ' ? : .V "Wild. S(K?N UK IIK.ItK." I: I* ? | -h ' ^ The News, realizing the nearness j '' the boll weevil to South Carolina ; >tton growers has taken occasion c' icently in several issues of the pa-' a ;r to bring the farmers of Lanca?- j ^ >r county to a relization of the tm- to ending danger. Along this line we ill attention to Governor Man- c' lnir's "WarninK to Farmers of ^ outh Carolina." The governor in oslng his message says, "We must w ot regard it as one of those misfor- j ti ines which may or may not come ? > us In a distant future. We be- ^ eve that the boll weevil will soon j t) e here." Our farmers should not. rl e deluded into a feeling of security j ci ecause of the fact that the cry of wolf. wolf," has been made so , li ften heretofore, without his appear-; a nee. Twenty-odd counties of Geor- i ti ia are now infested with the pest, o he weevil has been travelling Easr- a ard at the rate of from 90 to 100 , e illes this season. Only the Savan- ! ah river separates us from Georgia. , 81 fe cannot resist the onward march f the great army of Insects which ;.ve literally destroyed all cotton oils in their path. But we can pre- 11 are, in a way for their coming by r] [anting as little cotton as possible a >r him to feed upon. Let grain, rasses, clovers, and vetch take place ^ [ cotton. Thus will be accomplished T le double purpose of improving the k ?(1 aimnlvlno f AAHahlffu for Til (1VI ^ ?uFFi;'"e? iuuuwvu.?u i tie! beast, without going in debt for K lem and at the same time accom- C( lishing the starving out of the C! eevil when it makes its appearance. a mphasizing what the governor says, P1 e repeat that we also "hope this arning will be heeded." + HOlOIOIOlOtCIClCICIOICIOIOKXOtCICtOlOIOlCIOICIOH c' + as SKCOM) cnrxTV FAllt. Kt , , . , ... ..... , tl gi One month hence, during the first j. eek in November, Lancaster county w ill bo holding a second county fair. ?( he initial effort last year, despite tin, mud and other untoward con- + tions, was a most successful ven 4* ire. It even exceedel the expecta- J ons of those who made it possible .j. ecause the people of the town and junty were interested in making teir first fail representative of them b n<l worked with that end in view, ght well did they accomplish their urpose. And in the same spirit liich prompted the loyal men and omen of Lancaster last year, may S( ley and other workers bend every v ft'ort towards an even more successll fair for 1015. It will require the i-oporation of our people, old and f] oung. It (ills for the best efforts n tey are capable of making:. A coun- si / fair is of immense benefit to a aunty. It helps to develop the comlunity life by encouraging a friendly a Ivalry among the farmers and the h diool children. It puts the lious.? F ife on her mettle to excel in the seful arts. It calls for no less than le best we have to give. Our slogan v i ambitious but Lancastrians love to w emonstrate that they live up to it. lake ready your exhibits then ano ?t's show our neighbors how and hy "Lancaster Leads." v t Bven our horseshoe, hung up for 8 ick. failed to accomplish anything nd Main street continues as dirty s it lias ueen ror me past, iiiumu. y Va are at a loss for a new means of t rocedure, for we have no Idea of 1 orgetting, even if the city council pparently has forgotten the need of street sweeper. Maybe some of v ur readers can suggest how to ac- 1 omplish the end in view. + ; We hope that the newly organized Uitoinobile Association will use its nfluenee to have some of the streets i it the edge of town put in as good ; ondition as the county roads into ( vhirh they merge. Hy so doing the I lew association would be rendering 5 cenuine service to the community. The Augusta Chronicle is well able ( 0 defend Georgia from any foe that ihreatens that good state, but there s no excuse for certain other dailies lot joining In the defense. But why should not all the newspapers of fleorgia mobilize under such a 1 a o itjttum . 4? The AnderHon Mall says that a woman does not like an auction because the auctioneer insists on do'ng all the talking- And she probably likes auction bridge because all players at that game are given equal chance of having a "say" what the trump shall be. + Kdltor Booker of The Spartanburg Journal finds a good excuse for at-j tending the circus In hla prom'se to take his young son to see it. We can't decide which of the two will derive the greater pleasure from the circus. . A"** HE LANCASTER NEWS U NOBODY HEEDS THE KNOCKBR. a The Spartanburg Herald is an ex hange In which we always find vain ble hints on community building he editor knows the various type i be found in every town and ha: ridently met that most undesirabb tizen, the knocker, for hear wba b says of him: "That individual who thinks h in obstruct progress is sutferin ' i t Vi n mnnt iinnlonouvit anH iinfm unate case of exaggerated ego, an 1 most such cases, nothing more sei )us than a case of acute indigestio , necessary to bring him to a realize Ion that the procession will moi Ight along regardless of the ou ome of his distemper." In some case the ailment does nc ist long but reaches an acute stag nd when the crisis is past the pt lent is left in a weakened stale. I ther cases the trouble is clironi nd responds to no treatment wlia ver. But in whatever form the dii ase appears it has but one caus< elf-conceit. The sufferer is labo ig under the misapprehension thi He community will not be able to e3 it without his help, and he is detei lined to withhold it. preferrin atlier to criticize those who perfori ny task which seems to make fc lie welfare of the town. FortunaU r the disease is not contagioui 'his is perhaps the reason tlis nockers are In the minority tier nd elsewhere. Nobcdy cares reat deal whether or not thev r? over and nobody is in danger b? mse of tliein. Indeed such an ei mple of undesirablity are tlies s?sts that those who see their soure isages day after day, cannot but au line the opposite aspect. The row tired, too, of his carping critl sms and resolve to be as unlike bin * possible. As for the knocker him ?lf, lie is of little consequence fo ic progressive citizens do not re ird him as lie soon finds out that hi nocking does not deter them 011 hit. Nobody loves a knocker am obody liecds hi in. . i FROM OTIIKIt IWPKRS. H Cannot bo 1'rnaliml. We remind the farmers that nc ody can penalize them for holding -The State. The Very I test Tiling. One of the best things that high ricetl cotton is doing is tilling th [ hools and colleges.?Kdgefleld Ad ertiser. Knows Ilettcr Now. In the old times the teache liought it was punishing a hoy r lake him sit with the girls.?Ander an Mail. They Should Worry. With roller skates in one hand an school hook in the other, voun opefuls should worry.?Cliarlesto 'ost. There's a Reason. That man you passed up stret >'ith a smile on his face is a farme ho hasn't sold any of his cotton ye Spartanburg Journal. What Cure They? The woman suffragists may li >eak in logic, but they won't inin hat very much provided tliey ar trong in votes. News and ('oc'e lie (lets the Crowd. Do what he may, and cuss him a oil please. Hill Hryan never fac< he empty pews when he gets up t alk. Henderson Gold Leaf. A New Proposition. May Irwin proposes to help tl vomen laugh their way into the ha ot. Now if the suffs are going 1 ay down their brick-bats and smi -well, we'll listen to 'em with plea ire.?Greemille Piedmont. How .Much Hotter OIY. This time last year the farme were hoping to get ten cents p pound for their cotton. Hut wh rarmer would take ten cents p pound for his cotton now??Ande on Mail. Takes Himself Seriously. That old-fashioned fellow wl takes the point of all the paragrap he reads in the newspapers as a pe sonal thrust is still living, thouj about 108 years old.?Spartanbu Herald. New Newspaper Men. There are two new additions to t ranks of the newspaper men in t state. Ruiton Hicks has become e tor of The Woodruff Record a Allen Hawkins has nctomu editor The WHiiarnston News. Mr. liicks is i young attorney woooruir ann ie.-;ir.?aior-eieci ir? Spaft'inlMirK court}*. He will ma The ke<or.l a very able editor sir he is a young man of marked abll and a forceful writer. Mr. Hawkins was elected to I house from Oreenville last sumn at the head of the t'cket and was c of the champions of compulsory e< cation In the last legislature. He cently resigned as a member of I house to become superintendent the Wllllamston graded schools, will l>e a splendid addition to 1 newspaper ranks.?Spartanburg H aid. / . . OCTOBKH 5, 1915. A SPI It IT OF OPTIMISM. I VW S ' \A i H A Strung Plea for the Enforcement V < of Uw. A | ^ To the Editor of The News: ? | A spirit of optlmiBim obtains ^ _ among our people as the price of *4 cotton hovers around 12 cents, and seed 50 centB. The farmers of the 1 South did not expend all their ener- ^ 8 j gies this year raising cotton, but have ?? ' 3 , raised an abundance of grain and JL 9 . ogetables as well. The present esti mate of this year's cotton crop be! ing about 11,000,000 bales, we see a ? ; keen demand for some at much bet- ^ * p tor nHnoa thon a nv r\f tic lonlrnH f/\?- ? g few weeks ago. r-| It is evident that if the South had X d produced as much cotton this year *<? r- as last the prices would have been n very little, if any, better than they JX t- | were last fall. IP '*> Our best farmers see it this way t_ and will make even a greater effort to "live at home," being in a better f >t position than they were last fall to V ;e buy small grain and other seeds. So ' i the writer expects to see among our X i people even more, and still more, di- V n versification of crops. ic; It is gratifying indeed to read so T t-j many editorials in The News and <P s. other papers throughout the state, as well as utterances of many execu- ^ tlve officers. favoring a rigid en- X r- forcement of prohibition. While it Governor Manning was not the writ1 er's first choice for chief executive y* , 011 account of his local option views r"1 with regard to prohibition and com- & K nnlsorv education. I think we should X admire him for his brave and manly V >r stand for law enforcement, even if he i cannot play a slick game of politics, i What a relief, indeed, it is to feeT j B" I that we have a real true man today as governor, a man that is a sincere ^ e friend to all that conserves the best ^ n interests of our great state, a man that will not wantonly for selfish reasons, be they pecuniary or political, ^ set aside the verdicts of juries ana If sentences of courts. ?? e May Lancaster, the "Red Rose i i ? County," be inspired by the attitude f f of such men as Governor Manning ?? ~ and Sheriff Sim J. Miller of Lexing- j JT > ton. It was this truly courageous j f i- sheriff who said when told the result r, of the recent prohibition election: ^4^ | expect to make Lexington .*s dry as a powder house. All of this r talk about not being able to enforce - prohibition is the merest rot, and nt? s 1 have stated before, I will give the 1 .. ? g people of this county an example <>i _ . prohibition that will make every county in the state 'sit up and take ^P notice.' 1 found prohibition to he about tlie easiest law coming under ^ h my supervision when we had prohibi- ^P h tion and with a state-wide law there I* is no reason why we cannot make it ^P h more effective. Just say that so long H as I am an officer of the law. just so long will I see that the laws are en- ^P , forced." , Allow nie to say that I am indebted to The Lancaster News for this fl) quotation of Sheriff Miller. While the majority of the people of Lan- ^P caster county favor a rigid enforcel~ ment of law, the spirit of lawlessness ? is entirely too strong, and there is ^P too much sympathy and leniency shown that class of men who habit- ^P ually break the public peace. Let Lancaster county turn a new T leaf and begin to "lead" in the en- ^P " for cement of law. Let us be the banner prohibition county in the ^P state. ^ There are two distinctive classcof people. One strives to be popu- ^P ' lar, the other, to be right. One is K prompted to action by the love of 11 popularity or the dollar, the other ^P Inlanaafo nf BArlAtV. ny [lie Deal uiicivmo ^ There are two classes of officers. the one thnt is so very anxious to he ^ re-elected and stands by Ills friends, "r be they right or wrong but shudders ^P at the thought of performing his duty when it may mean the loss of a vote. The other feels that a great ^P responsibility rests upon him. that \ he has been elected by the peopr? ,( and that it is incumbent upon him v to be true to bis trust and perform r" the duties of his office justly and ^P" fearlessly, although such service II might make enemies of some that had formerly voted for him. ! The latter class should and will ^ prevail and woe \into that officer or J politician who would tacitly or otherwise obstruct its progress or wink ?? at crime. AMICUS. I i I Van Wyck. Oct. 4, 1915. ! *8* to je "Get Togetherness." s. Johnston is a community with a J "get-togetherness" hard to beat. The town, which by the way has this well <?+ known reputation, is fairly free of X rs private grudges and petty grouches. er When anything for the good of the ?* at town is proposed, practically everyer one lays ap'.de private interests and - outs a phoulder to the wheel for the ' betterment of the community.? A I Johnston Times. *h? MAD AT PAINT ~~ T ,r" 25c a x&Uon for paint is about K $2.50 on the average job, and lots of JL r* meu waited last year for that; but W they didn't reckon; they got mad, 14^ wouldn't pay it. | X . There are times to get mad and f . refuse to pay; but when one's property needs protecting is no time to , nd *et ma(* an<* not Pa,nt- ^ ^ Besides, it costs more to get mad ana wait man to paint. | 0f Getting mad doesn't do any good X Dm to your property; paint does It good ? ^ by keeping out water; no water, no < ? ire rot: no Pa'nt? some water and rot; A jty and a little rot Is more than enough jr to make a man liberal towards his hft painter and paint. jor Paint roets not a ceht. All the T )n| paint in the world, so long as it keeps ... out water, costs not a cent. A re- DEVOE X .he Lancaster Hardware Co., sells it. jf He Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days jb he Your drursitt will refund money if PAKO 4 DINTMHN f fall* to cure any caae of Itrhtnc, U ?f" I Rl!ti<l, Blerdlugor Protruding Ptlea In 6tol4d>ys. X The firat application ileea Kaae and Reat. 50c. ( ^ - < ' mm 11111)11-1. J. jjn 111 III AM I 1JILW t If you earn $10,000 a year and spend $11,000 you will & fall behind. If you earn ten dollars a week and save part Y of it you will get ahead?and there is no other way to do so. Let your money grow. We will pay you 4 per cent interest on the money you V put in our bank and compound the interest every three ^ months. The First National Bank | t'NITEl) STATES DEPOSITORY. LANCASTER. S. C. jf J ONLY THIS | Small Space to Let You Know We Have a Lot of BIG BARGAINS: In Fall And Winter Wear in Store For J ^ vou : 3MT" LOOK FOR THE S POINTING FINGER HIRSCH5! FALL | JHftPdl UUULi lk/| Our Stock of fall shoes is X now ready for your inspection. *f We have shoes for the entire % family, and at prices as low as Y quality will permit. % Our Motto is to see how cheap $ we can sell good shoes. % ' J. T. Wylie Co. I a, , The Store That Always Shows Something New. O ' 1